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"With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it."
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"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."
"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
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"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."
"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."
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"As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened."
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